The Inner Life of the Cell Animation

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a jaw-dropping view of the complexity and machine-like nature of cells.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

XVIVO Scientific Animation

Topic

cell biology animation

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• * 'Small proteins also promise to revise the current understanding of the genome. Many appear to be encoded in stretches of DNA—and RNA—that were not thought to help build proteins of any sort. Some researchers speculate that the short stretches of DNA could be newborn …

• This video blew me away: [VIDEO] It's an animation of the bio-chemistry a lymphocyte uses to move between cells (maybe - that's a guess?). It covers what I can only assume is a few milliseconds, it's just a tiny slither of the cells behaviours, yet …

• Motor proteins are so incredibly cool. Like many others I was blown away by the 3D animated Inner Life of the Cell[1] showing these proteins physically walking around in the cell. Previously I had this idea that cells were just blobs of jelly and somehow …